GENEVA (Reuters) -Bowing to pressure to reform the refugee convention and asylum system would be a "catastrophic error", the head of the UN agency for refugees said on Monday. Read full story

(Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu tendered the resignation of his government on Monday, less than a day after naming his cabinet, after his ministerial picks provoked consternation amongst ruling alliance allies and opponents whose support is needed to pass a budget for 2026. Read full story

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Right-wing activists are lining the streets of Dublin with Irish tricolour flags in a campaign that is dividing communities and fuelling a bitter debate about immigration. Read full story

TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line- up, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history, driving stocks and the euro sharply lower. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned, BFM TV reported on Monday citing unidentified government sources. Read full story

(Reuters) -Floods and landslides unleashed by unrelenting rain in India's eastern hill region of Darjeeling killed at least 18 people, after washing away homes, roads and bridges, authorities said, while the death toll in neighbouring Nepal rose to 50. Read full story

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia's Victoria state will appeal the sentence handed down to convicted mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, with the prosecutor calling the sentence 'manifestly inadequate," Australia's national broadcaster reported on Monday. Read full story

YAOUNDE (Reuters) -Announcing his bid for an eighth term in July, Paul Biya, Cameroon's 92-year-old president, said he was heeding "numerous and insistent" calls to stay in office, but this year's election cycle has also featured striking appeals for him to step aside. Read full story

KYIV (Reuters) -Senior European Union officials who visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message to Kyiv that it has a lot more to do to secure membership, while they work on overcoming Hungary's opposition to Ukrainian accession. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi has finalised a plan to appoint former party secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi as foreign minister following her appointment as prime minister, Asahi newspaper reported on Monday. Read full story

CAIRO, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian authorities have launched a high-level investigation into the mysterious disappearance of an ancient limestone slab from the tomb of Khentika in the Saqqara archaeological area near Cairo. Read full story

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) -U.S. forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, adding that the U.S. would also start looking at drug trafficking occurring on land. Read full story

(Reuters) -Auckland International Airport said on Monday it welcomed the New Zealand Commerce Commission's decision not to launch a formal inquiry into airport regulation as Air New Zealand had requested. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Sunday named Roland Lescure, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, as finance minister in a new government that political rivals threatened to topple quickly if it failed to break with past Macron policies. Read full story

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Sunday she would in the coming weeks present advances in made-in-Mexico projects developing electrical vehicles, semiconductors, satellites and drones, as part of a program to boost local production. Read full story

CHICAGO (Reuters) -U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city's southwest side. Read full story

TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgian riot police used pepper spray and water cannons to force protesters away from the presidential palace on Saturday as the opposition staged a large demonstration on the day of municipal elections. Read full story

JAKARTA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the collapse of a school building in Indonesia's East Java province has risen to 20, a local rescue official said Saturday. Read full story

(Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will make his first official visit to India on 8-9 October, India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Saturday. Read full story

BLANTYRE (Reuters) -Malawi's Peter Mutharika vowed to root out government corruption and rebuild an ailing economy after he was sworn in on Saturday for a second term as president of the southern African nation. Read full story

While Europeans and Americans are showing their frustration by choosing more extreme politics, Moroccans joined a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders, corruption, joblessness, income disparities and economies. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu plans a tax targeting individuals with annual incomes of over 250,000 euros to try to win the Socialist opposition's backing for his government's 2026 state budget, financial daily Les Echos said on Saturday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to set a refugee admissions cap at 7,500 people this fiscal year, a record low that prioritizes white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity, three people familiar with the matter said. Read full story

LISBON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's oldest cable manufacturer Alcobre celebrated its 115th anniversary and inaugurated a new production unit on Thursday. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ruling party picks the country's likely next prime minister on Saturday, aiming to regain public trust as voters reeling from rising prices turn to opposition groups promising big stimulus and clampdowns on foreigners. Read full story

BERLIN, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- German air traffic control (DFS) restricted flight operations at Munich Airport Friday evening following reports of possible drone activity in the vicinity of the airfield. Read full story

MUNICH (Reuters) -Both runways at Munich airport were closed on Friday evening for the second time in less than 24 hours after drones were again sighted, authorities said. Read full story

BOSTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court on Friday, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate may lay with the U.S. Supreme Court. Read full story

(Reuters) -A group of suspected scammers in Brazil using Instagram ads featuring deepfakes of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and other celebrities appears to have made millions of dollars through online fraud, according to police investigators. Read full story

BROADVIEW, Illinois (Reuters) -Police arrested several people on Friday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Chicago that has been the focus of protests since a federal immigration enforcement surge began last month. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will name a new Archbishop of Canterbury on Friday to lead the Church of England, mother church of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, and for the first time the centuries-old institution could be led by a woman. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) -Munich airport reopened on Friday morning after being closed overnight due to drone sightings, a Reuters witness said. Read full story

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) -The anxiety gripped Jayanti Mandasari as soon as she got off the phone with her son M. Muhfi Alfian on Monday. Read full story

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) -More than 10 ambulances lined up near a collapsed Islamic school building in Indonesia's East Java province on Friday as rescuers continued their search for nearly 60 students still trapped under the rubble, a Reuters witness said. Read full story

MUNICH (Reuters) -Germany's Munich airport reopened on Friday after shutting overnight due to drone sightings that forced the cancellation or diversion of dozens of flights on the eve of a national holiday and heightened concerns about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in Europe. Read full story